I'd recommend to be very careful on that, Based on own experience, you can run into troubles very easily.
I'd say that there are two approaches to communicate with a custom component from business logic: 1. Binding the component to the model. 2. Using mediators Approach 1 is advocated by Cairngorm <http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/cairngorm/Cairngorm> , and approach 2 is recommended by PureMVC <http://puremvc.org/> . However, I'd recommend to have a look at this other framework, which is flexible enough to let you choose which approach to take in each case: Aconcagua <http://code.google.com/p/aconcagua-flex/> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "jovialrandor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How do I access functions and properties of a custom component in my > main app? >